ABC News reports:
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, the most senior member of the U.S. Supreme Court’s liberal wing, said he will officially step down from the bench at noon on Thursday, relinquishing his duties as a justice and clearing the way for the swearing-in of the nation’s first Black female justice, Ketanji Brown Jackson.
“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Breyer wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden dated Wednesday. Breyer’s retirement fulfills the wish of Democrats who lobbied for his exit to make way for Biden’s first nominee to the court.
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In a letter to President Biden, Justice Stephen Breyer says he will officially retire from service to the Supreme Court on Thursday at noon.
“It has been my great honor to participate as a judge in the effort to maintain our Constitution and the Rule of Law,” Breyer writes. pic.twitter.com/EkWn8PIe13
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